So Camila has a habit of sending the wrong thing to the wrong people.
Text wise, that is. She thinks it's best to never send nudes to anyone because most likely they'll end up going to her mom, and it's gotten to the point that she assumes a text won't go where she intends for it to.
So, when she sends her weekly text to Dinah, it's no surprise thats he somehow ends up hitting Lauren Jauregui's contact name.
Now, Lauren Jauregui is in her contacts sure, but don't for one second let that make you think they talk in the slightest. She only has Lauren's number because they were on the same lacrosse team for like a day in Camila's freshmen year before Lauren was moved up from junior varsity to varsity. So yeah, the group chat was where she gained the girl's contact information.
But beyond that day they've never communicated before.
Camila: omg !!!! look what just happened !!! what does this look like to you I'm screaming it's so weird ??!!!
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Is the message she sends, but attached to it, is her jelly bird.
Now if she'd sent the picture of the bird shaped jelly to Dinah as planned, she'd probably get a straight face emoji reply and a smack on the shoulder the next morning for waking her up at two in the morning with jelly bird again.
But after a moment of no reply, Camila rubs at her eyes, smirks to herself and check the message again only to see in terror that she'd clicked Lauren Jauregui instead of Dinah Finah Jane.
Her eyes widen even more when she sees the three dots signifying that she is in fact typing meaning she has read the wrong number text.
She's expecting like, a question mark, or a confused or insulting text asking what the fuck she's on, or for a who even is this since obviously Lauren Jauregui didn't save her number.
What she gets though, after a good twenty seconds of staring anxiously at the phone, is as follows:
Lauren - OH MY GODS THAT LOOKS EXCTLY LIKE A BIRD WTFFFF
Oh?
Camila thinks she probably stares at the screen blankly for like, maybe a minute too long and before she knows it there are three more dots and then another message.
Lauren -wait noah fence but why are you making toast at 2 am ?
She should probably reply, since her read receipts are on and all but she kind of has no idea what to say. All she knows is that Lauren referenced Percy Jackson and said "noah fence" so she needs to reply.
Camila - oh well umm, you see
And that's where it begins.
She texts Lauren one night and they don't stop for, well they just don't stop. Lauren is perfect. She's everything Camila dreamed she'd be and more and she's slowly falling deeper than she already was.
They don't talk outside of text much, in school they'll wave and smile but they don't share much time together so the chance is lacking. The texting is mainly goody, silly shit that they maybe couldn't talk about with anyone else, but it's enough to make Camila's heart belly flop with every word. (Or should she say jelly flop? I think yes.)
It's not until almost two weeks after the incident that they get to talk in person, and Camila is sure Lauren is going to be done with her as soon as she opens her dumb mouth.
It's in her study hall, she's gone to the library and she runs, quite literally runs, into the raven haired girl and her friends.
"Oh my god I'm," Lauren starts but when she looks up stops and smiles instead, "Camz hey, whats got you in a rush?"
"Oh um just some books and stuff," no that's not true, "they're all the craze lately," she was supposed to be meeting some freshman to tutor but of course she needs to attempt to make an unfunny joke.
Except Lauren laughs. She laughs and nudges Camila's arm with her own and Camila swears the butterflies multiply in ten fold at the contact.
Lauren apparently decides Camila is more important than her friends so she dismisses them with a nod and follows her in, teasing her once she finds out she's a tutor and then she waits til she's done so they can actually talk.
And like, Camila is amazed at the fact that she can say the dumbest, most cringeworthy shit and Lauren will still think it's cute, she'll laugh and her laugh is the most amazing sound (other than maybe Copacabana glee cover) in the world.
So yeah, she can be herself around her crush and with that information she works her way into said crushes heart. It's easy, but it's special, and in the end of the day it's thanks to that damned toast.
(Maybe she's a little bit glad Jane and Jauregui are so close in her contacts, maybe.)
This is so short yikes but I haven't posted in a while and I found this in my drafts and please forgiv me for this weird jelly phase (only it's not a phase)
